A "history-of-ideas" account of the retreat of magical thinking in Europe before the rise of the modern scientific world-view; and of the challenge to this view presented by the physical researchers of the 19th century, who employed scientific methods and criteria. The focus of the book is upon the continuing challenge from their 20 century successors, the parapsychologists. Within this, the relationships between parapsychology and modern physics and modern philosophy are examined. Beloff's other publications include "Psychological Sciences" (1973) and, as editor, "New Directions in Parapsychology" (1974).
- ISBN10 0485120968
- ISBN13 9780485120967
- Publish Date 1 December 2000 (first published 1 September 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 January 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 336
- Language English